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CONSCIOUS CAPITALISM (AND NON-PROFITS)

I know that a whole bunch of our fellow Heretics are working on organizations aiming to have a positive impact on humanity — be it in the form of a non-profit or a for-profit company. What often gets muddled up in these organizations is the question of money: For some, money seems to be the root of all evil and thus they have a hard time squaring the need for it with the desire to grow their business. We had a fair amount of this in the earlier days of Mozilla.

Kip Tindell (founder of The Container Store) coined the term Conscious Capitalism as a different way to think about this and a new way to build businesses.

He made the following comment in a recent Inc. Magazine interview:

“An important part of conscious capitalism is that it is OK to make a profit. Costco pays its employees higher salaries than its competitors do. You can’t do that unless you’re profitable. You can’t change the world if the company isn’t making money.”